Scott's 7.8 mile walk took us from Grosmont Station up through woods and across moors to the village of Beck Hole and then to the spectacular waterfall of Mallyan Spout. A sharp climb up to Goatland for lunch followed. After lunch, we descended an old railway incline back to Beck Hole then took a level track along the Rail Trail past the Esk Valley Mine back to Grosmont.
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| Grosmont is on National Rail's Esk Valley Line served by Grosmont railway station, which is also used by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR), forming the northern terminus of its heritage railway to Pickering |
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| Grosmont Station |
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| Scott briefs us in the station car park |
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| Our eventual route back from Beck Hole |
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| Moorland above the Esk Valley |
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| Coffee at Beck Hole |
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| Mallyan Spout, at 23m the highest waterfall in the North York Moors National Park |
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| Mallyan Spout Hotel |
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| St Mary's Church, Goathland - look out for the stained glass Millennium Windows inside |
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| Heartbeat's Aidensfield Stores in Goathland |
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| Ford Anglia Police car as seen in Heartbeat |
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| Ironstone plaque celebrating the first iron made in the Esk Valley in 1857. W J Armitage was the owner of Cragside |
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| Twin Arch Bridge, built in 1847 at the heyday of iron production in the Esk Valley |
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| Miners' cottages in village of Esk Valley with retro Heartbeat car this year under wraps |
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| Shafts at Esk Valley mine |
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| Looking over Grosmont. Display board shows how the village looked when iron was made here |
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| Back at Grosmont Station - vintage steam engine shunting Pullman carriages |
